London Cocktail Week is coming up in October. Christian Davis gives a sneak preview of the UK’s biggest bar festival

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LONDON COCKTAILWeek is claimed to be the biggest drinks festival in the UK. The organiser, with its DrinkUp.London website, says it attracted a record 20,000 visitors last year.

Basically, participants pay £10 for a wristband which gets them unlimited £5 cocktails in more than 250 of London’s best bars throughout the week.

It also provides:

Week-long entry to the London Cocktail Week Village at Old Spitalfields Market – a collection of pop-up bars, trucks, vans and even bicycles taking over the whole of the market, where all cocktails are £5;

Week-long entry to the World Class House, where visitors can attend workshops and classes by World Class bartenders and experts, try a range of drinks and get involved in an “immersive pop-up to transport you Into the Unknown”;

A guidebook to London’s best cocktail bars highlighting where participants can enjoy discounted drinks during the festival.